Sixth Form News

A-level Engineering students from Liskeard Sixth Form recently visited the materials laboratory at Plymouth University to use their tensile testing machine and furnace to complete some destructive tensile tests on three samples of EN3B Bright Drawn Mild Steel. This was carried out to measure the behaviour of steel when it’s subjected to a tensile (pulling) force.

Engineering students from Liskeard School and community College were delighted to be given the opportunity to visit Kawasaki Precision Machinery UK Limited to gain a better understanding of how local engineering manufacturing companies mass produce products to an extremely high quality using ‘state of the art’ CNC machines.

Nine students from Liskeard Sixth Form embarked upon a very special expedition to Morocco at the end of the year. Harry Rees, Abbie Gubbin, Jordan Smith, Abbie Palmer, Connor Wilkes, Sophie Gerry, Katy Hollister, Jasmine Murfin and Emma Wilton were led by Liskeard School staff Mark Lemin and Andy Glasgow to complete a challenging trek and community work in Morocco.

School and community came together when a group of Sixth Form students in Liskeard School’s Bridge Academy helped put on the first ‘Make Things Happen’ event. The school and students worked with the Real Ideas Organisation (RIO) which brought together a variety of groups, individuals and Community businesses to talk about what’s already going on in our town and what can be developed.

Year 12 Business students from Liskeard Sixth Form travelled to Plymouth University recently to experience what life might be like for them in the future.

The team of students – Giles Blackwell, Tom Pugh, Josh Randall and Jordan West - took part in a competition hosted by Plymouth University’s Business School. Their task was to research and create a presentation on any topic of their choosing based around the theme of either technology, environment and sustainability, logistics or entrepreneurship and enterprise.

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